Vista - how to delete a folder with no name??

i created a folder with no name by renaming a folder to(alt + 0160)

but after that i m not able to delete , move or rename that
folder......

plzz. suggest how can i delete it?????????

i can open the folder and also others items can be moved or copied into
that folder....

but this no name folder cannot be deleted!!!!!!!!


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subratalok
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Try and right click the folder and click take ownership of the folder, then try and delete it.

that doesn't work...




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subratalok
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What doesn't work?

When following up to a previous post, you don't need to include everything.
Snip out what's not relevant. But do include what is relevant. Some people
may have missed the original post.

Try this:
Add "Take Ownership" to right-click menu in Vista
http://www.petri.co.il/add-take-owne...menu-vista.htm

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"subratalok" <subratalok.35nhci@xxxxxx-mx.forums.vistaheads.com> wrote in
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Hi, subratalok.

That file has a name, even if you can't see it. Open a Command Prompt
window (cmd.exe). At the prompt, type:
dir /x

That should show you all the files and folders in that directory. The one
that you named (alt + 0160) should appear with no name in the normal list of
files, but the column before that should show it as "0A00~1". That is the
Short File Name, also known as the SFN or the 8.3 filename. Now use RD to
remove that:
rd 0a00~1

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"subratalok" <subratalok.35n0oi@xxxxxx-mx.forums.vistaheads.com> wrote in
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THANX MAN.......

your method worked , but that folder get deleted after renaming it by
your method....(i.e, after dir/x . ........ ren 0A00~1 ...)


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Hi, subratalok.

You're welcome, and thanks for the feedback.

But you did not rename that folder to 0A00~1. It had that name all the
time.

RAM and disk space are so cheap now that we forget that it was precious not
so long ago. When floppy disks held only 67.5 KB, MS-DOS reserved only 8
bytes for the filename, plus 3 for an extension to indicate the type of
file. Only UPPERCASE alphabetic characters were allowed, plus numerals and
a few special characters, such as punctuation. The punctuation was limited,
too; we could use the period only to separate the extension (if any) from
the filename, not as a character in the filename, and spaces were not
allowed. These rules may seem archaic and arbitrary now, but they were
required then to deal with the hardware of the time.

My memory is hazy on this (There are plenty of folks here who can correct
me!), but I think it was not until MS-DOS 6.x that Long File Names (LFN)
were allowed. The file systems (FAT and NTFS) still created and used the
8.3 SFN; they just showed the LFN for use by us humans. And, basically,
they still do.

So, Dir /x shows us the SFN for any file or folder that has an LFN. "Long"
is a slight misnomer, because even a one-character filename is an LFN if it
is not a valid SFN - such as your invisible Alt+0160 (no-break space)
character. So the system creates the SFN immediately for its own use but
does not show it to us unless we ask for it with the /x switch for Dir.

RC
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"subratalok" <subratalok.35r6oe@xxxxxx-mx.forums.vistaheads.com> wrote in
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Hi R.C. White,

currently i have the same problem. but my com is running on vista and when i
try your method in command prompt, the display name for the folder is still
blank.. i cannot delete that..

"R. C. White" wrote:

Hi,

i had followed all your steps and manage to see the 0A00~1 name for the
folder with no name... however with i tried to rd 0A00~1, it says access
denied.. could you kindly advise me what is the next time that i should do as
i had already tried taking ownership of the folder but access is still
denied... thank you